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Interactive E-Books for Middle & High School Students
Interactive E-Books for Middle & High School Students
Interactive E-Books for Middle & High School Students

A Common Sense Selection: Interactive ebooks and web content make reading a social experience. Build collective reading experiences to make challenging texts more approachable and get kids excited about books.
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NaNoWriMo Writing
NaNoWriMo Writing
NaNoWriMo Writing

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is an adaptation of the National Novel Writing Month program for kid and teen writers in classrooms (or even at home).
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ActivelyLearn.com
ActivelyLearn.com
ActivelyLearn.com

Texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions.
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CommonLit
CommonLit
CommonLit

Free online reading passages.
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Five Family Reading Goals Teachers Recommend
Five Family Reading Goals Teachers Recommend
Five Family Reading Goals Teachers Recommend

Creating book goals turns reading into a fun activity that your kids will look forward to in their free time. These are five tangible family reading goals teachers hope you make.
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Welcoming Wonder (And Endless Questions!) With Kids
Welcoming Wonder (And Endless Questions!) With Kids
Welcoming Wonder (And Endless Questions!) With Kids

Asking questions is an important part of learning.
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13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling
13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling
13 PBS Games for Reading and Storytelling

To extend your child’s language ability and vocabulary, here is a list of our favorite PBS KIDS games that all center around learning letters, reading, and telling stories.
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Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time
Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time
Four Ideas to Encourage Family Reading Time

Four ideas to encourage family reading time! This resource from PBS is designed for parents.
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On-the-Go Literacy Games
On-the-Go Literacy Games
On-the-Go Literacy Games

Learn new family literacy games that can be played anywhere!
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Learning at Home: 9 Early Literacy Activities
Learning at Home: 9 Early Literacy Activities
Learning at Home: 9 Early Literacy Activities

This resource from PBS for Parents describes nine fun easy-to-do activities for home literacy learning.
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25 Activities to make reading & writing fun!
25 Activities to make reading & writing fun!
25 Activities to make reading & writing fun!

Develop enthusiasm for reading and writing.
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Reading Activities for the classroom & at home
Reading Activities for the classroom & at home
Reading Activities for the classroom & at home

Reading activities for the classroom & at home.
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Reading Online Games
Reading Online Games
Reading Online Games

Games to practice letter, phonics, decoding, vocabulary, word study, and comprehension.
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Teaching Kids News
Teaching Kids News
Teaching Kids News

This site gives students the opportunity to read and answer questions while engaging in the news. Students select the current events they want to learn more about.
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Sesame Street Reading Games
Sesame Street Reading Games
Sesame Street Reading Games

Play reading games with characters from Sesame Street for younger children.
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PBS Kids - Reading Games
PBS Kids - Reading Games
PBS Kids - Reading Games

Explore reading and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters.
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E-books for Teachers and Children
E-books for Teachers and Children
E-books for Teachers and Children

An E-book library, Oxford Owl provides many free resources to support teaching and learning in primary schools and at home while others can be purchased with a subscription.
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Online Reading Games
Online Reading Games
Online Reading Games

This website provides reading games and activities that expose students to a variety of skills and reading strategies that will help to create better overall comprehension. Skills covered include main idea, drawing conclusions, context clues, cause and effect, fact and opinion, synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary, and more.
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Into the Book
Into the Book
Into the Book

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. This website focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing by having students engage with the online interactive activities and videos.
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Free Rice Vocabulary Practice
Free Rice Vocabulary Practice
Free Rice Vocabulary Practice

Learn vocabulary words by playing an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world by earning a grain of rice for every question answered correctly.
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Storyline Online
Storyline Online
Storyline Online

Storyline Online is a children's literacy website created by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, which provides free storytelling videos and resources for parents and teachers to foster a love of reading in children.
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Epic Books
Epic Books
Epic Books

Epic provides access to over 40,000 high-quality illustrated books and chapter books for children ages 12 and under. Create a login and it's free!
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Phonics Games for Kids
Phonics Games for Kids
Phonics Games for Kids

Phonics Games for Kids Phonics Games Online by Level, Preschool Reading Games, Kindergarten Reading Games, 1st Grade Reading Games, 2nd Grade Reading Games. Covering, Letters of the Alphabet, Short Vowels, Beginning and Ending Consonants, Long Vowels, Vowel Digraphs, S Blends, R Blends, L Blends, R-controlled Vowels, Special Vowels, Diphthongs and more. Copyright KizPhonics.com
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Engaging Phonics Games for Kids
Engaging Phonics Games for Kids
Engaging Phonics Games for Kids

Phonic sounds help kids identify alphabets. Identifying and reading phonics form the building blocks of a child’s language development. At SplashLearn, we’ve merged this fundamental learning requirement with interactive games to make learning phonics an engaging experience for your child!
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Reading Machine
Reading Machine
Reading Machine

The Reading Machine provides links to 36 online games to help you teach and reinforce important reading skills, and to help your students practice and enhance their skills. The games make great "reward time" activities too.
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Teaching Vocabulary
Teaching Vocabulary
Teaching Vocabulary

The importance of vocabulary and tips for teaching it.
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Read Works
Read Works
Read Works

ReadWorks is a free website offering research-based strategies and resources for differentiated reading instruction, specifically comprehension. Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles.
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What is the Science of Reading? Video
What is the Science of Reading? Video
What is the Science of Reading? Video

Reading is like a mathematical equation, find out what helps to move reading forward in our young readers. YouTube Video by University of Florida Literacy Institute.
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What is the Science of Reading? - Timothy Shanahan
What is the Science of Reading? - Timothy Shanahan
What is the Science of Reading? - Timothy Shanahan

Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. This week he answers questions and share more about the Science of Reading.
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What is the Science of Reading?
What is the Science of Reading?
What is the Science of Reading?

Online article providing information about the Five Key Elements of Scientific Reading Instruction and the Three Elements of Science-Based Phonics Instruction.
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CREEC Network
CREEC Network
CREEC Network

The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is a program of the California Department of Education. The CREEC Network fosters regional partnerships throughout the state of California to promote environmental education and environmental literacy by providing teachers with access to high quality professional learning opportunities and education resources. Along with statewide sponsors and partners, each of the 11 California CREEC Regions provides professional learning opportunities and resources to educators as well as foster communications among schools and organizations interested in supporting the environmental literacy of California’s teachers and students. More information on the CDE’s CREEC Network program is posted on the CDE website. For Region 10 - RIMS information & resources go to: https://www.creec.org/Home/Region/10
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GeoInquiries Collection
GeoInquiries Collection
GeoInquiries Collection

GeoInquiries™ are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model and can be presented quickly from a single computer and projector or modified for students’ hands-on engagement. Collections of 15-20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.
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Spelling Bee
Spelling Bee
Spelling Bee

The Spelling Bee is an annual contest held amongst the winners of the thirty-three school districts in San Bernardino County where K-8th grade students are challenged to spell words from a given list, as well as more challenging words that require students to have an in-depth knowledge of word morphology. San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools promotes and encourages students to improve their spelling, expand their vocabularies and learn correct English usage that will positively affect communication, reading, and writing skills for the rest of their lives.
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Academic Decathlon
Academic Decathlon
Academic Decathlon

Academic Decathlon promotes educational experience for teams of high school (9th-12th) students to compete in ten academic events and a super quiz centered around a competition theme. Students of all GPA levels can compete. The goals of the Academic Decathlon are to encourage students to develop a greater respect for knowledge, to promote wholesome inter-school competition in academic areas of study and interest, to stimulate intellectual growth and achievement, and to encourage public interest and awareness of outstanding programs in secondary schools.